Christmas Vacation Part I: Los Hermanos

    Kennadee and I got to Utah a couple days before Russell so we decided to do some fun things while we waited anxiously for him to come. On Thursday we went to one of my favorite Restaurants, Los Hermanos (or Lost Hormones as my dad calls it). We met up with my Dad and Aileen, Jessica and her kiddos, and My mom and Pete for lunch. I was a bit disappointed that they changed their menu and raised their prices but it was still pretty good.

 Kennadee and Law. I couldn't get them to both look the same direction at the same time. It was so cute!

 Kennadee and Aunt Jessica

 Sisters!

 Me, Mom, Leena, & Jessica

 Kennadee wearing the Los Hermanos shirt standing in front of their Christmas Tree.

 Me, Dad, & Aileen

 I love this picture of me Kennadee my Dad & Aileen. 

 Me, Kennadee and my cute Niece & Nephews Law, Grey, and Ashtynn!

10 Things I love about this girl lately:

I can't believe how quickly my little girl is growing up! I have been thinking about all the things that I am loving about her and things she is doing that I love lately and I had to post them so I don't forget!

1. She sings with me out of the hymn book during sacrament meeting and is actually singing the words.

2. She randomly tells me how much she loves me at just the moment I need to hear it.

3. She is starting to be able to do math in her head. And sees math problems in daily situations (i.e. while watching a cooking show the lady said now this meal feeds a family of four and Kennadee said "Mom that must mean she has 2 kids because if it feeds 4 and there's 2 adults then that means she has 2 kids" Brilliant!) Also on the math assessment she took in school at the first 9 weeks she was the only one in her class to get the correct answer to the hardest math problem on the test! I was so impressed!

4. She is really good at reading and is discovering words to read all around her!

5. She loves to do kigasugu's (sp?) which means acts of kindness without being asked. 

6. She loves to make songs and then laughs herself silly while she sings them!

7. We introduced her to the game "Go Fish" she absolutely loves it and giggles and gets so excited when someone asks someone else for a card that she has in her hand because she knows she will get a match on her next turn.

8. She is finally to the point where she will eat almost anything we giver her for dinner and for those of you who know her well that is a huge deal! (She used to hate meat so much she would suck the Spaghetti sauce off of the hamburger and spit the hamburger out.) 

9. She has been growing leaps and bounds in her height. She will be taller than me by the time she is 8 I just know it! I bought some extra long pants for her this last summer in anticipation that they would fit her perfectly by winter but noooo she had to grow right out of them before she even got much of a chance to wear them!

10. Her teacher told me at parent teacher conference that she is a delight to have in class and she never has any behavior problems from her. I love that!

I just love this girl and I am so glad Heavenly Father blessed me with her! 

Lil' Stepper Dance Clinic

The High School High Steppers were holding a Lil' Stepper Dance Clinic as a fundraiser for their program so Kennadee batted her cute eyelashes at Daddy and convinced him to let her do it. She was so excited to do it and couldn't stop talking about it for the week before she did it. The day came and she went and did the clinic but when it came time to perform in front of the parents she got really nervous and wanted to go home. You can see it in her face in the pictures below.

The other part of this clinic was that they were able to perform at tonight's High School Football game. She got to dance on the field and then sit up in the stands with the High Steppers and cheer! She had so much fun and was sad when it was time to leave. I am so proud of her. I was really nervous at the beginning of the game that she would be too scared to do it but she opened right up and had a blast. 

 

Waiting on the sidelines to go onto the field to do their dance.

Here is a video of her dancing on the field. She is in the back towards the left with the blonde pigtails. 

 

( You may want to turn down the sound because the wind was blowing really hard into the mic)

After they danced they went and stood on the sides of where the players were coming out and then they came back up to sit with the Hight Steppers and cheer for the players. Here are a few pictures of her cheering. I think that was her favorite part.

Here is a video of them cheering when the team scored a touchdown:

All in all she did a great job and had a blast! I'm so glad she did this!

1st Grade Photo

Is this not the cutest little first grader you've ever seen???? I love this girl!! I am so pleased with the way these pictures turned out!

First Day Of First Grade

  Well the first day of school was actually a month ago so I decided that I should probably make a post about it. I'm probably going to say this every year but I can't believe that my little girl is already in first grade!! We practiced reading and writing all summer so that she could be more prepared for school. It was amazing to see how much of a difference there was in her reading skills at the end of the summer.

"Mom don't take my picture I'm eating!"

1st day of school hair

Backpack pose. So cute!

Ready to go!

In front of the school

Kennadee & Mrs. Stewart

I came and had lunch with her for her first day.

Cute girl!!! 

Well hopefully we have a succesful year of school. I can't believe she's growing up so quickly!!  I Love this girl so much!!!

 

Pontoon Boat

One of the days we were in Michigan we rented a Pontoon Boat and went up and down the Channel that connects Lake Michigan to some of the smaller lakes. We even went out onto the edge of Lake Michigan but with a pontoon boat we weren't allowed to go out very far on the lake. We had such a good time though!

 Lee driving the boat

 Russell chillin' 

 Kennadee loved pretending to surf. It was so cute!

 Helping Daddy drive the boat

 It took a lot of convincing to get Kennadee to get into the water.

 Once Becky came up with the ingenious idea to wrap the orange lifejackets around their waists to use as a floatie Kennadee loved being out there.

 The girls put their swim coverups over their life jackets it was so funny!

 Becky and Lee fell asleep for quite awhile.

We had such a blast on the boat. It was so fun!!